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CVE-2018-6829

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-327

Description

cipher/elgamal.c in Libgcrypt through 1.8.2, when used to encrypt messages directly, improperly encodes plaintexts, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading ciphertext data (i.e., it does not have semantic security in face of a ciphertext-only attack). The Decisional Diffie-Hellman (DDH) assumption does not hold for Libgcrypt's ElGamal implementation.

Affected products

• gnupg Libgcrypt: through 1.8.2

References

• https://github.com/weikengchen/attack-on-libgcrypt-elgamal
• https://github.com/weikengchen/attack-on-libgcrypt-elgamal/wiki
• https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gcrypt-devel/2018-February/004394.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
• https://github.com/weikengchen/attack-on-libgcrypt-elgamal
• https://github.com/weikengchen/attack-on-libgcrypt-elgamal/wiki
• https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gcrypt-devel/2018-February/004394.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html

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